Mary Landrieu encourages alternate health insurance enrollments

1:41 AM,
Nov. 29, 2013

Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu and seven other Senate Democrats are asking federal officials to find new ways for people to enroll in health insurance plans while the government-run HealthCare.gov website is being fixed.

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Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu and seven other Senate Democrats are asking federal officials to find new ways for people to enroll in health insurance plans while the government-run HealthCare.gov website is being fixed.

It's another sign Democrats are losing patience with the troubled rollout of a key piece of the Affordable Care Act.

"We believe it is appropriate for consumers to have multiple enrollment channels in order to maximize choice and make enrollment as convenient as possible," the senators wrote in a letter this week to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. ...